Quote by Hilary Mantel

“Why be a saint unless you could also be a martyr?”

— Louise Penny

“The sheer joy in the life of one saint during this festival is utterly inconceivable, but multiplying the millions of saints who will be…

— Patrick Davis

“It's the martyrdom of Saint Me.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“She would have to be a saint because that was the occupation that included everything you could know; and yet she knew she would…

— Flannery O'Connor

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

— Oscar Wilde

“ A saint is not to take the initiative toward self-realization, but toward knowing Jesus Christ. A spiritually vigorous saint never believes that his circumstances…

— Oswald Chambers

“The eyes of the saint make all beauty holy and the hands of the saint consecrate everything they touch to the glory of God,…

— Thomas Merton

“Saintliness is very odd. When people encounter it, they often take it for something else, something completely unlike it: indifference, mockery, scheming, coldness, insolence,…

— Philippe Claudel

“Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.”

— Eric Hoffer

“In those ancient rooms near the center of Belaire all our wisdom originates, born in the gossip's mind as she sits to watch the…

— John Crowley

It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe position of…

— W. H. Auden

“It is possible for any man, by good deeds, to enshrine himself as a Saint in the hearts of the people.”

— L. Frank Baum